[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for The Challenge Season 41 Episode 5.]
One other GOAT of the present headed house on The Problem‘s newest episode — although not for the explanation you would possibly assume.
Wednesday’s (August 27) new episode of Vets and New Threats picked up proper the place the final one left off, with the remaining rivals coping with the aftermath of Johnny Bananas‘ elimination. His showmance companion Dee Valladares staged an impromptu memorial on his now-empty mattress, match with an precise banana and a “no ft” signal as a wink to his obvious kink.
In the meantime, Olivia Kaiser mused that his exit would have the unintended consequence of uniting the rookies towards the veterans, and she or he gave the impression to be proper based mostly on the hush-hush bunkroom gathering Aneesa Ferreira by accident (or possibly deliberately) crashed.
After that, Cara Maria Sorbello revealed that she wanted to go away after receiving dangerous information about her mom’s well being and saved her greatest goodbye for fellow Bostonian Chris “C.T.” Tamburello, who provided to go away proper alongside her.
“That is tougher than The Problem itself,” she stated of what she confronted at house. “That is my escape. That is the place I can simply go on autopilot and give attention to one factor and escape my house actuality.” Of her exit, CT stated in a confessional, “Cara is sort of a sister to me… I inform her to maintain her head up, and she or he’s a troublesome chick, however I’m going to overlook her.”
Cara’s exit meant Leo Dionicio had no companion, however as a substitute of forcing him to develop into the following “hangnail” of the sport, host T.J. Lavin introduced that an alternate was coming into the sport — it was not simply any previous participant, however two-time The Problem: All Stars winner Jonna Mannion. Sport on.
The each day problem was sponsored by (and themed in accordance with) the upcoming soccer horror movie Him. Referred to as “Dirtballer,” the grueling problem required the pairs to work collectively to dig up large picket posts, carry them throughout a 500-meter discipline, then set them again into the bottom to create a goalpost earlier than kicking a discipline objective on it to win. Profitable the problem have been Michaela Bradshaw and Jake Cornish. Coming in useless final have been Dee and Derek Chavez.
Michaela, regardless of giving Olivia a spirited speech about her determination to guard somebody who wasn’t being focused, determined to throw their save to Jake’s pal Leo from potential elimination. Then, the home vote turned a tie between Yeremi Hykel (whose companion Ashley Mitchell was loudly involved about changing into a hangnail) and Ben Davis. T.J. resolved the tie with a coin toss, which despatched Ben into the sector.
The elimination problem was, just like the each day, Him-coded as “Him Collide,” a variation of the traditional Corridor Brawl that includes a soccer. With out a lot resistance, Derek ran throughout Ben and simply received, leaving his companion Olivia as the following hangnail.
Then got here the choice, whereby the brand new partnerships have been determined: Michael and Yeremi, Jake and Janna, Adrienne Naylor and Derek, Turabi “Turbo” Çamkıran and Tay Wilcoxson, Aviv Melmed and Cedric Hodges, Will Gagnon and Ashley, Ayoleka “Leka” Sodade and CT, Gabe Wai and Aneesa, America Chavez and Derrick Kosinski, Leroy Garrett and Izzy Fairthorne, Sydney Segal and Leo, Nany Gonzales and Theo Campbell, and Justin Hinsley and Dee.
All in all, there wasn’t an excessive amount of drama on this specific episode, however the look-ahead tells us that issues are about to bitter up between CT and Turbo — which means, the concern that vet-on-vet crimes would start within the wake of Bananas’ departure would possibly simply come true in any case.
The Problem, Wednesdays, 8/7c, MTV